This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 40 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 40 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Fill in the blank:Severe inflation ..... the nation's currency. A) Assuaged. B) Debased. C) Besieged. D) Championed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Debased. 2. A fight between small numbers of troops; a brief conflict A) Campaign. B) Stalemate. C) Skirmish. D) Siege. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skirmish. 3. How can a person's demeanor be observed, according to the definition provided? A) Through their facial appearance or behavior. B) By the amount of money they have. C) By the books they read. D) Through their favorite color. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Through their facial appearance or behavior. 4. Relating to the brain ..... A) Lament. B) Aloof. C) Cerebral. D) Connoisseur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cerebral. 5. Ordinary, common A) Querulous. B) Mundane. C) Ostentatious. D) Collaborate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mundane. 6. Select the correct definition:inundate A) To flood or overwhelm. B) Determined by impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason. C) Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wise social experience. D) Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To flood or overwhelm. 7. Capriciously changeable in affection or belief; not remaining faithful to one idea or feeling A) Aghast. B) Debonair. C) Fickle. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fickle. 8. What rhetorical device is used in the sentence "The wind whispered secrets to the ancient trees" ? A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 9. Select the vocabulary word that best fits in the blank:The massacre represents a ..... episode in our history. A) Profuse. B) Smug. C) Erratic. D) Surly. E) Sordid. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Sordid. 10. Unimaginable or unthinkable. A) Rectitude. B) Fickle. C) Aghast. D) Inconceivable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inconceivable. 11. Dinner was a disaster. The butternut squash soup was insipid, and the chicken that followed wasn't much better. A) Lacking flavor or taste; unexciting. B) Full of flavor; exciting. C) Commonplace; ordinary. D) To lessen fear; to calm; to relieve pain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lacking flavor or taste; unexciting. 12. To change, alter, or tweak A) Empirical. B) Fiscal. C) Incite. D) Modify. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modify. 13. Although a victim of the salesman's unethical tactics, my father decided to not be a(n) ..... in the lawsuit against the corporation. A) Ensemble. B) Elfin. C) Claimant. D) Tether. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claimant. 14. Impress with words ..... A) Noxious. B) Grandiloquent. C) Proficient. D) Harangue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grandiloquent. 15. When you remember definitions word for word, you remember them ..... A) Lament. B) Vacillate. C) Verbatim. D) Torpor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbatim. 16. One that preys on others or destroys-hunter A) Squander. B) Lethargy. C) Predator. D) Coalesce. E) Incantation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Predator. 17. The path taken when an object is in motion A) Incompetence. B) Invaluable. C) Trajectory. D) Delusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trajectory. 18. When looking for friends, it's important to find someone who is empathetic and ..... they'll always bring out the best in you. A) Exalt. B) Reticent. C) Magnanimous. D) Complacent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Magnanimous. 19. Unchanging and tedious A) Talisman. B) Fallacy. C) Monotonous. D) Inconceivable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monotonous. 20. Joie de Vivre A) Joy of living. B) Joy of talking. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joy of living. 21. Select the word that best fills in the blank.When people work with ..... , the work gets done quicker. A) Digression. B) Capitulate. C) Evanescence. D) Diligence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diligence. 22. To hit or attack with heavy impact A) Beget. B) Bludgeon. C) Balm. D) Bizarre. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bludgeon. 23. To move backwards, especially to retreat to a former state A) Mollify. B) Regress. C) Penitence. D) Pommel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Regress. 24. "Make easier" . Choose the correct vocabulary word that goes with the statement. A) Obstruct. B) Facilitate. C) Deride. D) Abstract. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Facilitate. 25. Easily deceived-credulous A) Strident. B) Gullible. C) Discreet. D) Discrete. E) Anarchy. 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